Authoring tools - use UTF-8 please. (bug 6993) (whatwg r3282)

Authoring tools - use UTF-8 please. (bug 6993) (whatwg r3282)
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6993

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2428&r2=1.2429&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3281&to=3282

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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--- Overview.html 16 Jun 2009 19:17:21 -0000 1.2428
+++ Overview.html 16 Jun 2009 19:18:53 -0000 1.2429
@@ -9091,7 +9091,8 @@
   on EBCDIC. Authors should not use UTF-32. Authors must not use the
   CESU-8, UTF-7, BOCU-1 and SCSU encodings. <a href="#references">[RFC1345]</a><!-- for the JIS types --> <a href="#references">[UTF32]</a> <a href="#references">[CESU8]</a> <a href="#references">[UTF7]</a> <a href="#references">[BOCU1]</a> <a href="#references">[SCSU]</a></p><!-- no idea what to reference for
   EBCDIC, so... --><p>Authors are encouraged to use UTF-8. Conformance checkers may
-  advise against authors using legacy encodings.<p>In XHTML, the XML declaration should be used for inline character
+  advise against authors using legacy encodings.<p>Authoring tools should default to using UTF-8 for newly-created
+  documents.<p>In XHTML, the XML declaration should be used for inline character
   encoding information, if necessary.<h4 id="the-style-element"><span class="secno">4.2.6 </span>The <dfn><code>style</code></dfn> element</h4><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
    <dd><a href="#metadata-content-0">Metadata content</a>.</dd>
    <dd>If the <code title="attr-style-scoped"><a href="#attr-style-scoped">scoped</a></code> attribute is present: <a href="#flow-content-0">flow content</a>.</dd>

Received on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 19:29:00 UTC